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A quiet man who lived with his beloved mother, the painter Édouard Vuillard applied his inventive talents to re-imagining bourgeois interiors as shifting planes of color and pattern. Admirers of his sensuous interior world will be bowled over by this sumptuous volume with its vivid narrative and 463 exquisite color reproductions. In Édouard Vuillard, Guy Cogeval discusses the artist's life and work with a passionate involvement that is rare in contemporary art writing. He describes how Vuillard's early work as a set designer apparently led him to stage manage family members, placing them in tense or confrontational tableaux that he memorialized in paint. Vuillard was an enthusiastic amateur photographer who favored the new handheld Kodak camera. An entire chapter is dedicated to the artist's charmingly artless snapshots of family and friends. In his later years, Vuillard utilized a more down-to-earth painting style in portraits of the rich and famous. While these paintings are often dismissed as conservative, Cogeval points out Vuillard's use of subtle details to comment on some of his sitters. Four other essayists treat themes ranging from "Vuillard and Ambiguity" to the effect of his annual summer vacations on his treatment of landscape, light and composition. This exceptional book accompanies an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C., from Jan. 19 to April 20, 2004, which travels to Montreal, Paris, and London.--Cathy Curtis ... Read more

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From hesitation to a superb rating....
I had the opportunity to see this show at the National Gallery in Washington D.C. and am amazed at how well everything was represented both in the book and at the show. At first I wasn't going to buy the book but, after speaking with my painting professor, who has been collecting Vuillard books for over 30 years, state that this is THE most comprehensive book of Vuillard's work and probably has more information and work than all his other Vuillard books combined, well, that clenched it and I had to get the book. I am very, very glad I did.

An authoritative coverage of Vuillard's vast body of art
The career of this French painter and photographer spanned the first four decades of the 20th century and produced a wealth of works. Edouard Vuillard represents the most comprehensive and authoritative study of Vuillard's art, with over a hundred works covering the wide range of his creations and enjoying essays by the authors, who explore his career and influences. Though it's the catalog for an exhibition in Washington DC, Edouard Vuillard will also earn its own rightful place as an authoritative coverage of Vuillard's vast body of art. ... Read more

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Edouard Vuillard, one of the great post-impressionists, is especially loved for his small easel paintings, but the fabulous large-scale decorative schemes that he created for wealthy Parisian homes are a relatively unknown aspect of his oeuvre. In this lavishly illustrated study, Gloria Groom examines fifty of these daring and important paintings and recreates and reevaluates their original settings. She provides valuable new information about Vuillard`s career, a fresh perspective on his thinking about art, a discussion of "decoration" as a new painting style, and an entertaining social history of fin-de-siecle Paris. ... Read more

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Best known for his intimate scenes of domestic life, Edouard Vuillard(1868– 1940) was one of the great Post-Impressionist artists. Yet—in contrast tocontemporaries such as Bonnard, Matisse, and Gauguin—relatively little has beenpublished about him. This book covers all of Vuillard's work and explores his associationwith a number of important stylistic groups, such as the Nabis and Symbolists. Theplentiful illustrations are sure to appeal to all fans of Post-Impressionist painting. ... Read more

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The contributions of artists Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, MauriceDenis, and Ker-Xavier Roussel to the avant-garde of the 1890s as members of the groupknown as the Nabis are widely recognized. What is less known about these artists'careers is their work in decorative painting—work on a large or unusual scale. Thisgorgeous book reproduces 85 decorative works carried out by the four artists between1890 and 1930. During this time each moved beyond the illusionism of easel painting andapplied his wholly untraditional aesthetic of décoration to a traditional wide range ofworks for domestic interiors, from wall-size ensembles to screens. The book alsoexamines the tastes and the role of the patrons who made these works possible.

Bringing together works from public and private collections, this book introduces andreunites paintings that have long been dispersed and presents to contemporary viewersbold and evocative works that literally expanded the role of painting as part of themodern experience ... Read more

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With an informative essay by Nicholas Watson
Co-published with the Yale University Press, Gloria Groom's Beyond The Easel: Decorative Painting By Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, And Roussel, 1890-1930 is an exhibition catalog which is profusely illustrated with both color and black-and-white reproductions. With an informative essay by Nicholas Watson, and additional contributions to the text by Jennifer Paoletti and Therese Barruel, Beyond The Easel is a magnificent, very highly recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library art history collections. ... Read more

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A little disappointing..
The book contains as many black and white prints as color plates. Some of Vuillard's best paintings are not present in this book which was a little disappointing. It has alot of written material about the artist as well as about each painting included which is helpful. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from New Statesman (1996), published by New Statesman, Ltd. on February 16, 2004. The length of the article is 861 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mother's boy: Richard Cork finds Vuillard was most at home painting the small moments of family life.(Art 2)(Critical Essay)
Publication: New Statesman (1996) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 16, 2004
Publisher: New Statesman, Ltd.
Volume: 133Issue: 4675Page: 42(2)

Article Type: Critical Essay

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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 4484 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Vuillard's mysteries.(Edouard Vuillard)(Critical Essay)
Author: Roger Kimball
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
Volume: 21Issue: 7Page: 5(8)

Article Type: Critical Essay

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Superb reproductions of Vuillard's work.
I studied my daughter-in-law's book intently and found the beautiful reproductions highly stimulating. I had not realized what a superb colorist Vuillard was. Although distemper is too tedious for me to use, I am hoping I can utilize some of his delicious color effects in the pastel portraits I paint.

This books shows what a wonderful portrait painter he was. He located his subjects in their personal surroundings in a masterful manner. Don't understand why it is so hard to locate this book. Will call you to see how long it will take to obtain a copy. I recommend it to everyone who cares about painting and visual beauty.This is no slick coffee table books but a gentle, lovely publication. ... Read more

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WON'T BE OUT OF PRINT FOR LONG
The best book if you want to know that group of artists.The authors really know their subject well because they wrote many books about them.ANTOINE TERRASSE's book on BONNARD is not expensive and well worth buying.Here, you'll meet the two masters who were lifelong friends;you'll also get to know MAILLOL the famous sculptor and VALLOTON along with other lesser known artists.The NABIS's principal inspiration when they started was PAUL GAUGUIN.After that, each one through the years worked as decorators for theaters and also as illustrators for revues like LA REVUE BLANCHE.Like in all movement, they as we often say found their own territory outside the movement who served as their platform. ... Read more